HOW TO MAKE A COWARD BOLD AND STRONG 23
HOW TO CURE PESTILENTIAL FEVER 23
HOW THIS QUINTE ESSENCE IS FOR HOLY MEN ONLY 25

THE SPHERES AND THE PLANETS 26
MR. GILL’S NOTES ON THE CHEMISTRY OF THE TEXT 27
GLOSSARY 29

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THE BOOK OF QUINTE ESSENCE
OR THE FIFTH BEING;
THAT IS TO SAY,
MAN’S HEAVEN.

[[Sloane MS. 73, fol. 10. Brit. Mus.]]




BOOK I.


[[Fol. 10.]]

[By the grace of God I translate you this Treatise revealed to
Hermes by an angel after Noah’s flood, that the knowledge of
this book may be preserved to the end of the world.]